It’s the best weekend of the year: the clocks jump forward, and the days get lighter. It’s a time for late-night beer gardens, hazy summer nights, and hayfever sneezes that feel like your head is going to explode.

Feel the beat
Premiering this weekend at Dalston Rio as part of Doc’n Roll Festival, Eduardo Cubillo Blasco’s Rave Culture: A New Era transports us back to 1980s Britain – a landscape marked by unemployment and disillusionment, but also by the sound of blistering basslines and pulsing rhythms. Informed by Detroit techno and Chicago house, Britain’s rave culture took shape in illegal underground raves across the country, becoming the pulse of a generation that felt lost, fractured, and in search of escape. Through vivid archival footage and interviews with the scene’s pioneers – the likes of DJ Ron, Goldie, Fabio and DJ Hype – Blasco’s documentary dives deep into the origins of this movement, and its enduring legacy. The screening is followed by a Q+A with the filmmakers.

Rave Culture: A New Era is being screened at Dalston Rio on Friday 27th at 21:00.

A century of design
First announced last summer, the first-ever UK exhibition devoted to Schiaparelli is finally opening its doors at the Victoria & Albert Museum this weekend. The retrospective spans the brand’s founding by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927 through to its current-day embodiment under the helm of creative director Daniel Roseberry. Comprising over 200 objects, including garments, accessories, jewellery, paintings, photographs, sculpture, furniture, perfumes and archive material, the extensive ephemera on display reflects Schiaparelli’s enduring creativity.

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art runs at Victoria & Albert Museum until November 1st, more info here. 

Shitkid is back
Marking ten years of shit, kid, this weekend Sweden’s brilliant lo-fi renegade Shitkid returns to the UK for the first time in years. Having initially grabbed our attention with her 2016 self-titled debut EP – with such classics as Poop 1 and 666 – Shitkid’s scrappy country-grunge has only become more exhilarating over the years. Her 2017 record Fish still hits hard, play Sugar Town and try not to feel like you’ve slipped into some dusty, neo-western world. Having ripped up Rough Trade and The Shacklewell Arms earlier this week, tonight she hits up Moth Club for a very special performance – don’t miss out, who knows when she’ll be back.

Shitkid plays Moth Club on 27th March.

Below the Clouds
First premiering at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize, Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary Pompeii: Below the Clouds is now streaming on MUBI. An homage to the city of Naples, the documentary was shot in and around the city over the course of three years, exploring the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius in the city’s peripheral vision. Scored by Academy Award-winning Daniel Blumberg, Rosi’s narrative delves into the city’s ancient past and the ways it infiltrates the daily lives of its residents.

Pompeii: Below the Clouds is streaming exclusively on MUBI now.

Stories from Home
MUBI’s latest takeover is happening at The Castle Cinema in Hackney tomorrow. Titled Stories from Home, the East London theatre becomes your living room for the day, screening a programme of films from midday to midnight. Home is the thread running through each film chosen, exploring the myriad of ways the sentiment appears in cinema, with movies like Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Sean Baker’s The Florida Project on the bill.

Stories from Home runs at Hackney’s Castle Cinema on Saturday 28th March, more info here. 

A good kind of kitchen fire
The team behind Notting Hill’s plant-based eatery Holy Carrot have just opened the doors to a new outpost in Spitalfields. Headed up by ex-Acme Fire Cult chef Daniel Watkins, the kitchen prioritises seasonal vegetable dishes alongside live-fire cooking. Inside, tables are adorned with pristine white sheets and a single candle, against the backdrop of artworks and interiors designed in collaboration with Toogood Studio. Dishes to note on the menu include a rotation of fire-grilled filled Koji flatbreads, Masala borlotti beans with grilled Iberico tomato, miso-marmite pizzettas, artichoke tempeh schnitzel and a top-tier sticky toffee pudding to finish. 

Holy Carrot is located at 61-63 Brushfield Street, E1 6AA, more info here.